Re: Pig Latin

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Pig Latin

It depends on how general you want to be. My first run attempt is:

while(<>) {
    s{ \b([bcdfghjklmpqrstvwxyz]?)(\w+) }
     { if($1) {$2.$1.'ay'}
       else   {$2."way"} }egix;
    print;
    }

The problem is that this doesn't correctly treat cases like th, sh, pr, etc. where there's really a compound starting consonant. Maybe, this would be a bit more correct:

while(<>) {
    s{ \b([bcdfghjklmpqrstvwxyz]*)([aeiou]+)(\w*) }
     { if($1) {$2.$3.$1.'ay'}
       else   {$2.$3."way"} }egix;
    print;
    }

[ybiC]

Adding qu| at the front of $1 and removing q from [...] provides support for the "qu" combination.   My first attempted tweak was to add (qu) inside $1's [...] but that hosed things for words like "jumped".

Bonus points for guessing the cliche phrase I tested this with.  <grin>

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
while(<>) {
    s{ \b(qu|[bcdfghjklmpnrstvwxyz]*)([aeiou]+)(\w*) }
     { if($1) {$2.$3.$1.'ay'}
       else {$2.$3."way"} }egix;
     print;
     }
# END

    cheers,
    ybiC